WESTMINCOM: Military vows to maintain security, ensures poll preparation in Maguindanao

Posted to the Western Mindanao Command (WESTMINCOM) Website (Mar 28, 2019): Military vows to maintain security, ensures poll preparation in Maguindanao



The military vowed to maintain security in Maguindanao and ensured preparations for the midterm elections during the 8th regular meeting of the Kapamagayun Inter-Agency Task Force in the province on March 26.

Soldiers from 90th Infantry Battalion and 5th Special Forces Battalion and Maguindanao Provincial Police Office pledged to maintain the peace and security at their respective area of operations during the meeting held at Talayan Municipal Hall.

They likewise vowed to perform their duties and responsibilities to ensure a safe, secured, honest, orderly, peaceful, and credible midterm elections on May 13, 2019.


Colonel Wilbur Mamawag, 603rd Infantry Brigade Commander, was inducted as the new co-chairperson of the KIATF.

Colonel Mamawag conveyed, in his statement, that they have to work hand-in-hand in order to achieve their advocacies on peace and security.

Talayan Municipal Mayor Datu Tungkang Midtimbang, Al-Haj hosted the said meeting. He further encouraged local chief executives to strengthen their advocacies as KIATF members and to pursue their objectives for the achievement of their common goals.

As a result of the intensified campaign against the proliferation of the loose firearms in the area of operations of the 90IB, loose firearms were turned over by the municipalities of Datu Anggal Midtimbang, Guindulungan, Talayan, and Talitay in a ceremony held on Monday.


Mayor Tungkang Midtimbang conveyed his sincere gratitude to the leadership of the 603rd Bde and the Task Force “Kutawato” of the Joint Task Force Central for establishing the KIATF as the mechanism towards peace, prosperity, and progress in the province of Maguindanao.

“We will continue to engage our partners and the people of Maguindanao in our peaceful mechanisms to address insurgency in Mindanao. We believe that by involving and empowering communities, we are employing feasible resolutions to address security issues in the area,” said Lieutenant General Arnel Dela Vega, commander of Western Mindanao Command.

“Peace is inclusive and is best achieved by convergence and commitment, and we have, no doubt, achieved milestones by treading on that journey together,” he added.

Kapamagayun Inter-Agency Task Force (KIATF) is an ad hoc interagency organization of the municipalities of Kabuntalan, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Datu Anggal Midtimbang, Talayan, Talitay, Guindulungan and 603rd Bde, with 90th Infantry (Bigkis-Lahi) Battalion and 5th Special Forces Battalion of Task Force “Kutawato” under Joint Task Force Central as Head Secretariat/secretariat.

It was activated on June 29, 2017 as one of the joint initiatives and advocacies of the 603rd Infantry Brigade and LCEs of the said municipalities.



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